California Department of Public Health

For fiscal year 2009, the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program received $2,652,487.

The California Department of Public Health set forth the following goals to build or expand its biomonitoring program:

• Expanding current laboratory capability and capacity to assess human exposures to environmental chemicals of greatest concern to Californians;
• Providing laboratory support for targeted public health and exposure investigations, epidemiologic investigations, and population-based biomonitoring surveillance;
• Conducting targeted exposure investigations in collaboration with communities and stakeholder groups;
• Assessing the effectiveness of state public health actions to reduce exposures over time to specific chemicals of concern to Californians; and
• Integrating biomonitoring findings into the development and implementation of chemical use policy for California under the Green Chemistry Initiative.

For more information, contact:

Rupali Das, MD, MPH
Exposure Assessment Section
California Department of Public Health
Environmental Health Investigations Branch
850 Marina Bay Parkway
Building P, 3rd Floor
Richmond, CA 94804-6403
Tel 510-620-5763
Fax 510-620-3720
Rupali.Das@cdph.ca.gov

California Department of Public Health

Lovisa Romanoff, MS
CDC Project Officer
770-488-0192
LRomanoff@cdc.gov